Lacey Ellis

  • How Big Kansas City helped my bottled-up startup idea run free

    How Big Kansas City helped my bottled-up startup idea run free

    As we prepare for Big Kansas City 2014, we asked 2013 attendee Lacey Ellis to share her conference experience and why she’ll be a return attendee. Ellis is the founder and CEO of LittleHoots, a fast, fun and easy way to capture all the wonderful things your children say with beautiful designer templates that bring…

  • LittleHoots helps parents scrapbook on the go, capture kids’ creativity

    What do you do as a parent when your 3-year-old daughter says, “You need wine”? Or what about when she’s 4 years old and, when asked if she needs to take a nap, responds with “No, I wanna power through.” If you’re most parents, you laugh and wish someone else was in the room with…

  • My Instagram feed tells the story of a growing KC startup community

    Storytelling is a beautiful, ever-evolving art form and Instagram is one of its vehicles. As I was scrolling through my feed last Friday, I stopped for a second to reflect on the events of the past few months and the impact of those events on the Kansas City startup community. Our inaugural Big Kansas City…

  • Digital scrapbooking app LittleHootz wins Startup Weekend Kansas City

    Lacey Ellis has been solving problems her entire professional career. Problem is, it’s always been for someone else. She helped build campaigns for clients like Commerce Bank, MetLife and Hostess as an art director and freelancer at ad agencies the past ten years. When a problem she faced as a mother wouldn’t leave her head,…